While thedomain and techindustry isabuzz talking about how Google is launching their new own retail registrar in a private beta that is mostly being tested with the help of employees, DNN embarked on the journey to uncover what Google’s technical solution looks liked; and in turn discovered that it appears that the new registrar is built on Key Systems’s RRPProxy – a hosted registrar/reseller solution.

DNN didn’t have to look far – the answer to the mystery is right in the whois – as part of the referral URL as to which whois server is to be queried. We did manage to find a Google related domain that is registered through Google’s registrar – exit.com:

I did a Google search for “Registrar: Google Inc” and found 3 other .COM domain names that are registered in Google’s ICANN cred. You can see that these domains were also updated recently, which supports your findings:

Honestly, I would be glad that Google is piggy backing on another system to operate their registrar. Being a Google Apps customer since 2007, I’ve had to deal with Google’s poorly built system for handling domain renewals/registrations. Now, Google is an eNom and GoDaddy reseller, so these domain names were handled by GoDaddy and eNom on the backend. But I have not seen other resellers have such problems.

Just do a Googles search for “can’t renew Google Apps domain” and you will find a virtually limitless amount of complaints from customer’s who could not renew their domains because of Google’s system having issues or Google seemingly ignoring issues.